2012-13 Iowa Hunting And Trapping Regulations - Iowa Department ...
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Youth Turkey <strong>Hunting</strong> Season (Residents Only)<br />
Hunters younger than 16 years old on the day<br />
they purchase a license may participate in the<br />
Youth Turkey Season. The Youth Wild Turkey<br />
License will cost $24.50 and will be a combination<br />
gun/bow license valid statewide. The youth does<br />
not have to have a <strong>Hunting</strong> License or have<br />
completed a hunter education course in order to<br />
participate. A Youth Season License is good for<br />
the Youth Season only and may not be used in<br />
any other season.<br />
Youth hunters must be under the direct<br />
supervision of an adult mentor while hunting<br />
during the Youth Season. The mentor must have<br />
a valid Wild Turkey License for one of the spring<br />
seasons, a valid <strong>Hunting</strong> License, and have paid<br />
the Habitat Fee if the adult is normally required to<br />
have them to hunt. The mentor must not carry a<br />
bow or firearm and must be in the direct company<br />
of the youth at all times. There may be no more<br />
than one youth with each properly licensed adult<br />
mentor. The youth and mentor must comply with<br />
all spring turkey hunting regulations.<br />
A youth who resides with and is a member of a<br />
family of a landowner or tenant who is eligible for<br />
a Landowner-Tenant Wild Turkey <strong>Hunting</strong> License<br />
may obtain a Landowner-Tenant License for the<br />
Youth Season. The Landowner-Tenant Youth<br />
License will count as the one Landowner-Tenant<br />
Wild Turkey <strong>Hunting</strong> License the landowner or<br />
tenant family is entitled to for the spring turkey<br />
seasons.<br />
Youth hunters may obtain one additional Gun/<br />
Bow license for Season 4, or one Archery-only<br />
license. Hunters that are eligible for the Youth<br />
Season, but choose not to participate, may obtain<br />
two licenses for the regular spring turkey seasons<br />
like any other hunter.<br />
Prohibited Devices and Activities<br />
You may not use live decoys, dogs (except in the<br />
fall), horses, phones, radios, motorized vehicles,<br />
aircraft, bait, recorded or electronically amplified<br />
turkey calls or electronically amplified imitations<br />
of turkey calls or sounds when hunting turkeys.<br />
Paraplegics and single- or double-leg amputees<br />
may hunt from any stationary motor-driven conveyance.<br />
“Paraplegic” means an individual afflicted<br />
with paralysis of the lower half of the body with the<br />
involvement of both legs, usually due to disease or<br />
injury to the spinal cord.<br />
“Bait” means grain, fruit, vegetables, nuts, hay,<br />
salt, mineral blocks, or any other natural food materials,<br />
commercial products containing natural<br />
food materials, or by-products of such materials<br />
transported to or placed in an area for the purpose of<br />
attracting wildlife. Bait does not include food placed<br />
during normal agricultural activities.<br />
Helping Other Hunters<br />
A resident hunter with a valid spring turkey hunting<br />
license for any season may assist other hunters in<br />
any season. A nonresident may assist other hunters<br />
only in the zone and season indicated on their license.<br />
The hunter doing the assisting may not carry<br />
a shotgun or bow or shoot a turkey unless he or she<br />
has a valid license and an unfilled transportation tag<br />
for that zone and season.<br />
Spring Turkey <strong>Hunting</strong><br />
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